Laureates
| Year | Image | Laureate | Relation | Category | Rationale |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1959 | Kornberg, ArthurArthur Kornberg |
City College, class of 1937 | Physiology or Medicine | "for their discovery of the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid" | |
| 1961 | Hofstadter, RobertRobert Hofstadter |
City College, class of 1935 | Physics | "for his pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and for his thereby achieved discoveries concerning the structure of the nucleons" | |
| 1970 | Axelrod, JuliusJulius Axelrod |
City College, class of 1933 | Physiology or Medicine | "for their discoveries concerning the humoral transmittors in the nerve terminals and the mechanism for their storage, release and inactivation" | |
| 1972 | Arrow, KennethKenneth Arrow |
City College, class of 1940 | Economics | "for their pioneering contributions to general economic equilibrium theory and welfare theory." | |
| 1977 | Yalow, Rosalyn SussmanRosalyn Sussman Yalow |
Hunter College, class of 1941 | Physiology or Medicine | "for the development of radioimmunoassays of peptide hormones" | |
| 1978 | Penzias, Arno AllanArno Allan Penzias |
City College, class of 1954 | Physics | "for their discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation" | |
| 1985 | Hauptman, Herbert A.Herbert A. Hauptman |
City College, class of 1937 | Chemistry | "for their achievements in developing direct methods for the determination of crystal structures" | |
| 1985 | Karle, JeromeJerome Karle |
City College, class of 1937 | Chemistry | "for their achievements in developing direct methods for the determination of crystal structures" | |
| 1986 | Cohen, StanleyStanley Cohen |
Brooklyn College, class of 1943 | Physiology or Medicine | "for their discoveries of growth factors" | |
| 1988 | Elion, Gertrude B.Gertrude B. Elion |
Hunter College, class of 1937 | Physiology or Medicine | "for their discoveries of important principles for drug treatment" | |
| 1988 | Lederman, Leon M.Leon M. Lederman |
City College, class of 1943 | Physics | "for the neutrino beam method and the demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino" | |
| 2005 | Aumann, RobertRobert Aumann |
City College, class of 1950 | Economics | "for having enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis." |
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